Word: frightful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elsewhere. Critics of American State Department "anti-colonialism" have argued that this policy was dictated primarily by the need to eject the old European colonial Powers from Africa and Asia. That having accomplished this task with the debacle and dissolution of the old Empires, the United States took fright at what it discerned as a "power vacuum" which it feared might be filled by indigenous revolutionary forces or the Soviet Union or a combination of both forces. At this juncture American anti-colonalism faded out, and the United States "stepped into" the presumed vacuum. Professor Rotberg's work in "anti...
There was Walter Matthau playing top banana on the set of Paramount's A New Leaf, clowning around between takes in a fright wig that combined the best of Geronimo with the worst of Phyllis Diller. But once the cameras start rolling, insists Walter, he is strictly supporting cast for the film's director, scriptwriter and female lead. And who might they be? "They," all rolled into one neat package, happen to be Writer-Comedienne Elaine May, who is now going into moviemaking in a big way. What's more, says Matthau, Elaine is "a tough little...
Svoboda's setting, with Everding's di rection, went far toward explaining the psychological mystery of Wagner's drama of redemption through love. Everding demanded a "moment of existential fright" at the first appearance of the Dutchman's ship. The vessel loomed darkly out of the water like a giant mollusk, brightened only by the Dutchman's pale face leaning over the bow. It dwarfed everything on the stage and threatened to sail straight out into the audience. Svoboda and Everding even had the audacity to stage the finale the way Wagner wrote it (most...
...then there was one of those god-awful family get-togethers--was it what's her face's wedding or cousin George's funeral (he was twenty-nine and died of fright)? Anyway, after fifteen minutes of kisses on the cheek and handshakes with good-natured (oh yes) ribbing about long hair and campus activism you realized the only way to survive was to get hopelessly drunk. And so, mellow and impish, you explained to your maiden aunt that it would be great to do away with marriage because it would end all discussion about pre-marital sex, and that...
...then there was one of those god-awful family get-togethers--was it what's her face's wedding or cousin George's funeral (he was twenty-nine and died of fright)? Anyway, after fifteen minutes of kisses on the cheek and handshakes with good-natured (oh yes) ribbing about long hair and campus activism you realized the only way to survive was to get hopelessly drunk. And so, mellow and impish, you explained to your maiden aunt that it would be great to do away with marriage because it would end all discusson about pre-marital sex, and that...